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Re: Moved system partitions--> weird /dev/hdaX???



I have now discovered that Win will format the new partition, but that does
not hold after a reboot.  Additionally, the colors for most device files
have changed to yellow in /dev.  I seem to recall them being another color
before...

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:52:39AM -0600, ^chewie wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 02:37:54AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > Newbie approach to giving new partition to Nintendo, er, Winblows 98
> > for games.. 
> 
> ROFL!
> 
> > I was partitioned as...
> ...[snip]...
> > I am now with
> >   /dev/hda1 as above
> >   /dev/hda3 4.5 Gb D: for M$ (primary)
> >   /dev/hda5 for / (logical), contains boot files now instead of
> >       separate part.
> > 
> > /dev/hda3 now mounts as the old boot directory.  ????  And I can
> > read the files!
> 
> You have verified that your fstab does NOT have an entry like:
> 
>     /boot   /dev/hda3   ext3        defaults        0   0

Yes.  It is commented out.

 
> You have also verified that /dev/hda3 is NOT bootable, right?

cfdisk:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
    hda1       Boot         Primary   Win95 FAT32 (LBA)   3068.03
    hda3                    Primary   Win95 FAT32 (LBA)  4622.61
    hda5                    Logical   Linux ext2         98.71
    hda6                    Logical   Linux             2015.20
    hda7                    Logical   Linux swap        509.97
    hda8                    Logical   Linux ext2        1019.94
    hda9                    Logical   Linux ext2        6119.61
    hda10                   Logical   Linux ext2        3068.03


> You have also verified that you reran lilo after editing lilo.conf?

Yes.


> Are you installing the lilo boot record _on the master boot record_?

No. MBR is there. LILO is configured to use /dev/hda5 for booting. AFAICT
MBR does not need to be reinstalled. Or am I missing something here?


> The only way that your system would mount /dev/hda3 is if there's an
> entry in the /etc/fstab file.  Good luck!

I was not clear in pointing out that I do not have /dev/hda3 mounted
normally.  I had mounted it (at /mnt) only to see the results of formatting
it under Win98. Then I saw contents of a /boot directory. I copied a file
into it, showing that it was not linked to the current one in any insane way
(ie. the file did not show up in /boot). That file is still there after
shutting down, coming back up, and remounting /dev/hda3.

??????

Kenward
-- 
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.  For that he
doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from
books.  The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the
learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something
that cannot be learned from books.     Albert Einstein



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